A global broadcast network where anyone can say anything to anyone else as often as possible, and where such people have come to think they deserve such a capacity, or even that withholding it amounts to censorship or suppression—that’s just a terrible idea from the outset. And it’s a terrible idea that is entirely and completely bound up with the concept of social media itself: systems erected and used exclusively to deliver an endless stream of content.

2. How does he differentiate between social media and social network?

    For social network or social networking as the original name, is onvolved to connecting not publishing, By connecting your personal network of trusted contacts (or “strong ties,” as sociologists call them) to others’ such networks (via “weak ties”), you could surface a larger network of trusted contacts. The whole idea of social networks was networking: building or deepening relationships, mostly with people you knew. How and why that deepening happened was largely left to the users to decide.

    And for social media is actually same between social network and social media but that changed around 2009 because the introduction of the smartphone and the launch of Instagram. Instead of connecting or forging to people and organizations that we know, social media offered platforms through which people could publish content as widely as possible, well beyond their networks of immediate contacts. Social media turned everyone into broadcasters. The results have been disastrous but also highly pleasurable, not to mention massively profitable.

3. How would you response to his argument? Do you agree/disagree? Explain why?

    I would agree with the statement by Ian Bogost, he said "It’s seemingly as hard to give up on social media as it was to give up smoking en masse, like Americans did in the 20th century. Quitting that habit took decades of regulatory intervention, public-relations campaigning, social shaming, and aesthetic shifts. At a cultural level, we didn’t stop smoking just because the habit was unpleasant or uncool or even because it might kill us. We did so slowly and over time, by forcing social life to suffocate the practice. That process must now begin in earnest for social media."

because social media is like coin, it have two sides it can be positive like maintaining connections and supporting creativity like you can share whatever you want and reached a lot of people. but it can also be negative because like Bogost said it have addiction if you can't control it, but i think by social media now we can build an wide relations but you have to control it or you are the one who controlled by social media.

Name                   : Muhammad Arjun Jamaala

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